We are one year and almost one weekend into college football's new frontier, the four-team playoff, and already folks want to change it. Naturally! I mean, last season went so well and the expanded playoff proved to be so popular that the first inclination is to mess with it.

It's the new American way. More, more, more! Since four teams was better than two, let's turn four into eight and it will be twice as good!

No! It would be worse.

The beauty of four vs. two was it managed to make the two most important aspects of the sport better. The regular season and the angst.

Don't listen to the coaches! They want eight teams because it gives them a better chance to be in the playoffs. Coaches always want more playoff teams because it helps coaches keep their jobs. Most basketball coaches want the NCAA Tournament expanded (from 68) to 96 or 128 teams, too. Thank goodness one of the few things the NCAA has gotten right in the last 30 years is to leave the best part of their sport virtually alone.

In fact, you could argue that March Madness and the NFL playoffs are the two most popular end-of-season events in American sports. What do they have in common (besides staggering amounts of gambling)? Neither ending has been significantly altered in over 25 years. Think about it for a second. The NFL has exploded in popularity since they went to 12 playoff teams in 1990. It could have easily added two or four more teams and gone to 16 like the NBA and NHL. The move would have made a few billion in extra television revenue. Yet, even the NFL have resisted this for one very important reason. It would have severely weakened the significance of the regular season while watering down the product.

If the NFL, which will do anything for a buck, can see the forest from the trees on this issue my hope is the forces in college football will also.

An eight-team playoff means these early season non-conference showdowns have very little meaning. So what if the SEC dominates or takes it on the chin, its conference champion is guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. Why would the Big 12 ever have to expand or play a conference title game like the other leagues? It wouldn't. The league's spot in the playoff would be secure.

There are many in the sport who want Notre Dame to have to join a conference or at the least add an extra game to its schedule so its road to the playoffs is just as long as the others. In a four-team scenario, an 11-1 Irish team can be left out. In an eight-team scenario, every time Notre Dame wins merely 10 games they'll get in! Why would the power conferences want the Irish to have their cake and eat it too, at one of their team's expense?

With only four teams in the playoff there is a genuine passionate debate about conferences, teams and strength of schedules. At the end of the season, that passion turns to angst for some which drives the sport going forward. Passionate opinion and debate has taken college football from a regional sport a generation ago to where it is today. An eight-team playoff leaves virtually no one unhappy which would not be good for business. Angst sells!

The only real downside to the status quo is that little room is left for a Boise State or UCF, the good programs from outside the Power 5 conferences, to make the current four-team playoff even if they go undefeated. While that may not be fair, it creates even more angst and more debate, which only adds more fuel to the fire.So maybe that's not such a bad thing after all?

It's very early to already be talking about the endgame. However, college football is the only sport driven by opinion. The ball is already beginning to roll to turn four into eight. Which is why it needs to be said early and often.

Bigger is not better.

David Moulton co-hosts "Miller and Moulton" weekdays 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on 99.3 FM. His freelance column appears Sunday's and Thursday's. You can email David at: dmoulton@news-press.com